Sentence examples for polemic in which from inspiring English sources

"This is not a book of history but a polemic in which the special interests of the author are dominant and in conflict with the interests of research and presentation of the facts," a Vatican spokesman said at the time.

I trailed down the 1,500-plus 1,500-plushread below Malik's polemicommentsch, amid threadedictabelowangential diversions (and plenty of deletions), there was a Malikre of support for her opinion among the criticism.

Far from being silenced by these catastrophes, Vidal's literary energy was now invested in a doddery polemic in which the Bush family plotted to defraud the American people, in which the US military was implicated in 9/11 and the presidency was sold out to Exxon and Halliburton.

The new president will be faced with Israel and Iran locked in a polemic in which the US will most certainly be implicated.

As with his recent "Muslims-are-taking-over-London" polemic, in which he said that London police officers are "scared for their lives" due to "areas of radicalisation" in the capital.

Jewel became bishop of Salisbury in 1560 and began writing a series of polemics in which he propounded his theological views.

On 17 June 1996, the Guangming Daily, an influential state-run newspaper, published a polemic against Falun Gong in which its central text, Zhuan Falun, was described as an example of "feudal superstition".

"The cinematic style of late Mikhalkov is an extremely faithful expression of the Putin era, in which polemics are also senseless," he wrote in the April 21 edition of the newspaper, and offered a series of possible interpretations for qualities they both share: "Extreme cynicism and the domination of personal proximity to the source of power above all other criteria?

It reminds you of the wonderful way Hepburn acted in a stage production of Shaw's "The Millionairess," that late polemic farce without much humor, in which she had her native role of the born boss and assumed a child's look of grievance when she wanted to defend marriage in spite of its risks of damage.

A political talk show is a gladiatorial contest in which squabbles, polemics and screaming matches are exploited for their entertainment value.

Against this rigid dogmatist, who was a man of almost pharisaical narrow-mindedness, Lessing launched some of his most cutting polemics, notably "Anti-Goeze" (1778), in which he expounded his belief that the search for truth is more valuable than the certainty gained by clinging to doctrinaire orthodoxy.